Free Voters

Free Voters (FW) is a centrist political party in Germany which was founded in 1965 as the Bundesverband and on 24 January 2009 in its current form. It was founded as a party dedicated to regionalism and local government, standing for city councils and mayoralties, but not for the Bundestag. It achieved its best results in rural areas of southern Germany, where it appealed to conservative localists who favored the resolution of local issues over party politics. In 2018, the Free Voters in Bavaria won a record 28 seats in the Landtag, and they allied themselves to the Christian Social Union in Bavaria.